World Health Report 2000: how it removes equity from the agenda for public health monitoring and policyCommentary: comprehensive approaches are needed for full understanding
BMJPublished 22 September 2001Open access
Paula Braveman, Bárbara Starfield, Hartmut Geiger, Christopher J L Murray
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The report's measure of health inequalities is not useful for guiding national policy because it provides no information to guide resource allocation or to target policies and correlates poorly with other well established indices of social inequality in health.
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